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Is this number evil?

14

Introduction

In number theory, a number is considered evil if there are an even number of 1's in its binary representation. In today's challenge, you will be identifying whether or not a given number is evil.

Challenge

Your job is to write a full program or function which accepts a single, non-negative integer as input and outputs (or returns) whether or not that number is evil.

  • You may output any truthy value if the number is evil, and any falsy value if the number is not evil.
  • You may input and output in any acceptable format.
  • Standard loopholes are disallowed.
  • OEIS sequence A001969 is the sequence containing all evil numbers.
  • Here is a list of the first 10000 evil numbers, for reference (and more test cases!)
  • This question is , so the shorter, the better.
  • Don't be put off by extremely short answers in golfing languages. I encourage you to submit in any language you like.
  • Here are some test cases:

    3 => True
    11 => False
    777 => True
    43 => True
    55 => False
    666 => False
    

The Leaderboard

At the bottom of the page is a stack snippet containing a leaderboard for this question. (Thanks, @MartinEnder)

To make sure that your answer shows up, please start your answer with a headline, using the following Markdown template:

# Language Name, N bytes

where N is the size of your submission. If you improve your score, you can keep old scores in the headline, by striking them through. For instance:

# Ruby, <s>104</s> <s>101</s> 96 bytes

If there you want to include multiple numbers in your header (e.g. because your score is the sum of two files or you want to list interpreter flag penalties separately), make sure that the actual score is the last number in the header:

# Perl, 43 + 2 (-p flag) = 45 bytes

You can also make the language name a link which will then show up in the leaderboard snippet:

# [><>](http://esolangs.org/wiki/Fish), 121 bytes

/* Configuration */

var QUESTION_ID = 169724; // Obtain this from the url
// It will be like https://XYZ.stackexchange.com/questions/QUESTION_ID/... on any question page
var ANSWER_FILTER = "!t)IWYnsLAZle2tQ3KqrVveCRJfxcRLe";
var COMMENT_FILTER = "!)Q2B_A2kjfAiU78X(md6BoYk";
var OVERRIDE_USER = 81420; // This should be the user ID of the challenge author.

/* App */

var answers = [],
  answers_hash, answer_ids, answer_page = 1,
  more_answers = true,
  comment_page;

function answersUrl(index) {
  return "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/" + QUESTION_ID + "/answers?page=" + index + "&pagesize=100&order=desc&sort=creation&site=codegolf&filter=" + ANSWER_FILTER;
}

function commentUrl(index, answers) {
  return "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/answers/" + answers.join(';') + "/comments?page=" + index + "&pagesize=100&order=desc&sort=creation&site=codegolf&filter=" + COMMENT_FILTER;
}

function getAnswers() {
  jQuery.ajax({
    url: answersUrl(answer_page++),
    method: "get",
    dataType: "jsonp",
    crossDomain: true,
    success: function(data) {
      answers.push.apply(answers, data.items);
      answers_hash = [];
      answer_ids = [];
      data.items.forEach(function(a) {
        a.comments = [];
        var id = +a.share_link.match(/\d+/);
        answer_ids.push(id);
        answers_hash[id] = a;
      });
      if (!data.has_more) more_answers = false;
      comment_page = 1;
      getComments();
    }
  });
}

function getComments() {
  jQuery.ajax({
    url: commentUrl(comment_page++, answer_ids),
    method: "get",
    dataType: "jsonp",
    crossDomain: true,
    success: function(data) {
      data.items.forEach(function(c) {
        if (c.owner.user_id === OVERRIDE_USER)
          answers_hash[c.post_id].comments.push(c);
      });
      if (data.has_more) getComments();
      else if (more_answers) getAnswers();
      else process();
    }
  });
}

getAnswers();

var SCORE_REG = /<h\d>\s*([^\n,<]*(?:<(?:[^\n>]*>[^\n<]*<\/[^\n>]*>)[^\n,<]*)*),.*?(\d+)(?=[^\n\d<>]*(?:<(?:s>[^\n<>]*<\/s>|[^\n<>]+>)[^\n\d<>]*)*<\/h\d>)/;

var OVERRIDE_REG = /^Override\s*header:\s*/i;

function getAuthorName(a) {
  return a.owner.display_name;
}

function process() {
  var valid = [];

  answers.forEach(function(a) {
    var body = a.body;
    a.comments.forEach(function(c) {
      if (OVERRIDE_REG.test(c.body))
        body = '<h1>' + c.body.replace(OVERRIDE_REG, '') + '</h1>';
    });

    var match = body.match(SCORE_REG);
    if (match)
      valid.push({
        user: getAuthorName(a),
        size: +match[2],
        language: match[1],
        link: a.share_link,
      });
    //else console.log(body);
  });

  valid.sort(function(a, b) {
    var aB = a.size,
      bB = b.size;
    return aB - bB
  });

  var languages = {};
  var place = 1;
  var lastSize = null;
  var lastPlace = 1;
  valid.forEach(function(a) {
    if (a.size != lastSize)
      lastPlace = place;
    lastSize = a.size;
    ++place;

    var answer = jQuery("#answer-template").html();
    answer = answer.replace("{{PLACE}}", lastPlace + ".")
      .replace("{{NAME}}", a.user)
      .replace("{{LANGUAGE}}", a.language)
      .replace("{{SIZE}}", a.size)
      .replace("{{LINK}}", a.link);
    answer = jQuery(answer);
    jQuery("#answers").append(answer);

    var lang = a.language;
    lang = jQuery('<a>' + lang + '</a>').text();

    languages[lang] = languages[lang] || {
      lang: a.language,
      lang_raw: lang,
      user: a.user,
      size: a.size,
      link: a.link
    };
  });

  var langs = [];
  for (var lang in languages)
    if (languages.hasOwnProperty(lang))
      langs.push(languages[lang]);

  langs.sort(function(a, b) {
    if (a.lang_raw.toLowerCase() > b.lang_raw.toLowerCase()) return 1;
    if (a.lang_raw.toLowerCase() < b.lang_raw.toLowerCase()) return -1;
    return 0;
  });

  for (var i = 0; i < langs.length; ++i) {
    var language = jQuery("#language-template").html();
    var lang = langs[i];
    language = language.replace("{{LANGUAGE}}", lang.lang)
      .replace("{{NAME}}", lang.user)
      .replace("{{SIZE}}", lang.size)
      .replace("{{LINK}}", lang.link);
    language = jQuery(language);
    jQuery("#languages").append(language);
  }

}
body {
  text-align: left !important;
  display: block !important;
}

#answer-list {
  padding: 10px;
  width: 290px;
  float: left;
}

#language-list {
  padding: 10px;
  width: 500px;
  float: left;
}

table thead {
  font-weight: bold;
}

table td {
  padding: 5px;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/codegolf/all.css?v=ffb5d0584c5f">
<div id="language-list">
  <h2>Shortest Solution by Language</h2>
  <table class="language-list">
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <td>Language</td>
        <td>User</td>
        <td>Score</td>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody id="languages">

    </tbody>
  </table>
</div>
<div id="answer-list">
  <h2>Leaderboard</h2>
  <table class="answer-list">
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <td></td>
        <td>Author</td>
        <td>Language</td>
        <td>Size</td>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody id="answers">

    </tbody>
  </table>
</div>
<table style="display: none">
  <tbody id="answer-template">
    <tr>
      <td>{{PLACE}}</td>
      <td>{{NAME}}</td>
      <td>{{LANGUAGE}}</td>
      <td>{{SIZE}}</td>
      <td><a href="{{LINK}}">Link</a></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
<table style="display: none">
  <tbody id="language-template">
    <tr>
      <td>{{LANGUAGE}}</td>
      <td>{{NAME}}</td>
      <td>{{SIZE}}</td>
      <td><a href="{{LINK}}">Link</a></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

EDIT: I believe this question is not a duplicate of this, because whereas that question is asking to count the number of ones, this question is asking whether the number of ones is even. Although you can accomplish this question by simply counting the bits, there are other approaches too.

2 Answers

4

Japt -h!, 5 4 3 bytes

¤å^

Try it


Explanation

¤       :Convert to base-2 string
 å^     :Cumulatively reduce by XORing
        :Implicitly output the last element negated
3

R, 37 26 bytes

!sum(scan()%/%2^(0:31))%%2

Try it online!

An alternative to Robert S.'s answer, this eschews the built-in bit splitting but ends up less golfy and thanks to JayCe and digEmAll ends up coming in slightly golfier.

Only works for positive integers less than \$2^{31}-1\$.


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Is this number evil?

14

Introduction

In number theory, a number is considered evil if there are an even number of 1's in its binary representation. In today's challenge, you will be identifying whether or not a given number is evil.

Challenge

Your job is to write a full program or function which accepts a single, non-negative integer as input and outputs (or returns) whether or not that number is evil.

  • You may output any truthy value if the number is evil, and any falsy value if the number is not evil.
  • You may input and output in any acceptable format.
  • Standard loopholes are disallowed.
  • OEIS sequence A001969 is the sequence containing all evil numbers.
  • Here is a list of the first 10000 evil numbers, for reference (and more test cases!)
  • This question is , so the shorter, the better.
  • Don't be put off by extremely short answers in golfing languages. I encourage you to submit in any language you like.
  • Here are some test cases:

    3 => True
    11 => False
    777 => True
    43 => True
    55 => False
    666 => False
    

The Leaderboard

At the bottom of the page is a stack snippet containing a leaderboard for this question. (Thanks, @MartinEnder)

To make sure that your answer shows up, please start your answer with a headline, using the following Markdown template:

# Language Name, N bytes

where N is the size of your submission. If you improve your score, you can keep old scores in the headline, by striking them through. For instance:

# Ruby, <s>104</s> <s>101</s> 96 bytes

If there you want to include multiple numbers in your header (e.g. because your score is the sum of two files or you want to list interpreter flag penalties separately), make sure that the actual score is the last number in the header:

# Perl, 43 + 2 (-p flag) = 45 bytes

You can also make the language name a link which will then show up in the leaderboard snippet:

# [><>](http://esolangs.org/wiki/Fish), 121 bytes

/* Configuration */

var QUESTION_ID = 169724; // Obtain this from the url
// It will be like https://XYZ.stackexchange.com/questions/QUESTION_ID/... on any question page
var ANSWER_FILTER = "!t)IWYnsLAZle2tQ3KqrVveCRJfxcRLe";
var COMMENT_FILTER = "!)Q2B_A2kjfAiU78X(md6BoYk";
var OVERRIDE_USER = 81420; // This should be the user ID of the challenge author.

/* App */

var answers = [],
  answers_hash, answer_ids, answer_page = 1,
  more_answers = true,
  comment_page;

function answersUrl(index) {
  return "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/" + QUESTION_ID + "/answers?page=" + index + "&pagesize=100&order=desc&sort=creation&site=codegolf&filter=" + ANSWER_FILTER;
}

function commentUrl(index, answers) {
  return "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/answers/" + answers.join(';') + "/comments?page=" + index + "&pagesize=100&order=desc&sort=creation&site=codegolf&filter=" + COMMENT_FILTER;
}

function getAnswers() {
  jQuery.ajax({
    url: answersUrl(answer_page++),
    method: "get",
    dataType: "jsonp",
    crossDomain: true,
    success: function(data) {
      answers.push.apply(answers, data.items);
      answers_hash = [];
      answer_ids = [];
      data.items.forEach(function(a) {
        a.comments = [];
        var id = +a.share_link.match(/\d+/);
        answer_ids.push(id);
        answers_hash[id] = a;
      });
      if (!data.has_more) more_answers = false;
      comment_page = 1;
      getComments();
    }
  });
}

function getComments() {
  jQuery.ajax({
    url: commentUrl(comment_page++, answer_ids),
    method: "get",
    dataType: "jsonp",
    crossDomain: true,
    success: function(data) {
      data.items.forEach(function(c) {
        if (c.owner.user_id === OVERRIDE_USER)
          answers_hash[c.post_id].comments.push(c);
      });
      if (data.has_more) getComments();
      else if (more_answers) getAnswers();
      else process();
    }
  });
}

getAnswers();

var SCORE_REG = /<h\d>\s*([^\n,<]*(?:<(?:[^\n>]*>[^\n<]*<\/[^\n>]*>)[^\n,<]*)*),.*?(\d+)(?=[^\n\d<>]*(?:<(?:s>[^\n<>]*<\/s>|[^\n<>]+>)[^\n\d<>]*)*<\/h\d>)/;

var OVERRIDE_REG = /^Override\s*header:\s*/i;

function getAuthorName(a) {
  return a.owner.display_name;
}

function process() {
  var valid = [];

  answers.forEach(function(a) {
    var body = a.body;
    a.comments.forEach(function(c) {
      if (OVERRIDE_REG.test(c.body))
        body = '<h1>' + c.body.replace(OVERRIDE_REG, '') + '</h1>';
    });

    var match = body.match(SCORE_REG);
    if (match)
      valid.push({
        user: getAuthorName(a),
        size: +match[2],
        language: match[1],
        link: a.share_link,
      });
    //else console.log(body);
  });

  valid.sort(function(a, b) {
    var aB = a.size,
      bB = b.size;
    return aB - bB
  });

  var languages = {};
  var place = 1;
  var lastSize = null;
  var lastPlace = 1;
  valid.forEach(function(a) {
    if (a.size != lastSize)
      lastPlace = place;
    lastSize = a.size;
    ++place;

    var answer = jQuery("#answer-template").html();
    answer = answer.replace("{{PLACE}}", lastPlace + ".")
      .replace("{{NAME}}", a.user)
      .replace("{{LANGUAGE}}", a.language)
      .replace("{{SIZE}}", a.size)
      .replace("{{LINK}}", a.link);
    answer = jQuery(answer);
    jQuery("#answers").append(answer);

    var lang = a.language;
    lang = jQuery('<a>' + lang + '</a>').text();

    languages[lang] = languages[lang] || {
      lang: a.language,
      lang_raw: lang,
      user: a.user,
      size: a.size,
      link: a.link
    };
  });

  var langs = [];
  for (var lang in languages)
    if (languages.hasOwnProperty(lang))
      langs.push(languages[lang]);

  langs.sort(function(a, b) {
    if (a.lang_raw.toLowerCase() > b.lang_raw.toLowerCase()) return 1;
    if (a.lang_raw.toLowerCase() < b.lang_raw.toLowerCase()) return -1;
    return 0;
  });

  for (var i = 0; i < langs.length; ++i) {
    var language = jQuery("#language-template").html();
    var lang = langs[i];
    language = language.replace("{{LANGUAGE}}", lang.lang)
      .replace("{{NAME}}", lang.user)
      .replace("{{SIZE}}", lang.size)
      .replace("{{LINK}}", lang.link);
    language = jQuery(language);
    jQuery("#languages").append(language);
  }

}
body {
  text-align: left !important;
  display: block !important;
}

#answer-list {
  padding: 10px;
  width: 290px;
  float: left;
}

#language-list {
  padding: 10px;
  width: 500px;
  float: left;
}

table thead {
  font-weight: bold;
}

table td {
  padding: 5px;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/codegolf/all.css?v=ffb5d0584c5f">
<div id="language-list">
  <h2>Shortest Solution by Language</h2>
  <table class="language-list">
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <td>Language</td>
        <td>User</td>
        <td>Score</td>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody id="languages">

    </tbody>
  </table>
</div>
<div id="answer-list">
  <h2>Leaderboard</h2>
  <table class="answer-list">
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <td></td>
        <td>Author</td>
        <td>Language</td>
        <td>Size</td>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody id="answers">

    </tbody>
  </table>
</div>
<table style="display: none">
  <tbody id="answer-template">
    <tr>
      <td>{{PLACE}}</td>
      <td>{{NAME}}</td>
      <td>{{LANGUAGE}}</td>
      <td>{{SIZE}}</td>
      <td><a href="{{LINK}}">Link</a></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
<table style="display: none">
  <tbody id="language-template">
    <tr>
      <td>{{LANGUAGE}}</td>
      <td>{{NAME}}</td>
      <td>{{SIZE}}</td>
      <td><a href="{{LINK}}">Link</a></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

EDIT: I believe this question is not a duplicate of this, because whereas that question is asking to count the number of ones, this question is asking whether the number of ones is even. Although you can accomplish this question by simply counting the bits, there are other approaches too.


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9

Japt -h!, 5 4 3 bytes

¤å^

Try it


Explanation

¤       :Convert to base-2 string
 å^     :Cumulatively reduce by XORing
        :Implicitly output the last element negated

edit

@LuisfelipeDejesusMunoz, porting Kevin's 05AB1E solution also works out at 5 bytes, if you want to try for that. - Shaggy Aug 1, 2018 at 15:21

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